Ri Kang-bom

Ri Kang-bom is a North Korean marathon runner. He was a silver medalist at the 2019 Asian Marathon Championships.

Career

Ri went into the Hong Kong Marathon in February 2012 with a personal best of 2:25:20 for the marathon.
He ran 2:23:42 to earn sixth place in the men's marathon at the Asian Games in Jakarta–Palembang in 2018. He won the Pyongyang Marathon in April 2018 with a time of 2:12:53.
In 2019, he set a personal best time of 2:11:19 in winning the Pyongyang Marathon. In the December of that year, he finished as runner-up at the Asian Marathon Championships held in Dongguan, China. He was leading the race into the closing stages but mistakenly followed a television vehicle off course and away from the route, which enabled Japanese runner Daichi Kamino to overtake him for the win with Ri finishing second in a time of 2:12:21.